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$13M for wrongful conviction
MONTREAL - Rejean
Hinse, now 73, was wrongly implicated in the Dec. 14,
1961 armed robbery of a couple who lived in
Mont-Laurier, Que. (CTV)
Dad lost kids due to bogus doctor
WHITBY, Ont. - A child custody battle is
an ugly, twisted jungle at the best of times, but a
Whitby father never stood a chance after family court
accepted a disparaging assessment done by a man posing
as a psychologist. And ignored the one by the true
PhD. (QMI)
'Police can't control the crime anymore'
PORT ALBERNI -
A jeweller from Port Alberni, BC, who shot an armed robber five
times is taking a public stand for stronger rights to
bear arms in Canada. "The police can't control the
crime anymore," Dennis Galloway said. (CBC)
Ostrowski free on
bail
ROCKWOOD INSTITUTION
-
Frank Ostrowski,
a Winnipeg man who has spent 23 years in jail for a
murder he says he didn't commit, will be going home for
Christmas after being released on bail. (CBC)
90 days
RED
DEER - A central Alberta farmer, charged after he took
the law into his own hands over two years ago during a
robbery on his property, will serve a 90-day jail
sentence on weekends. Brian Knight was charged after he
fired two shots at a thief as he attempted to flee
Bashaw-area farm on a stolen
quad in March of 2009. (CTV) MORE:
Famer who shot thief will go to jail
Farmer gets jail
Farmer who shot thief sentenced
Premier "feels for' farmer
You know the justice system is upside down
Brian Knight Legal Fund
Tainted blood trial acquittals
TORONTO -
An Ontario judge has acquitted all
defendants in the tainted blood scandal, angering
victims of the worst public health disaster in Canadian
history. (CTV)
PREVIOUS:
Accused in tainted blood
trial exonerated
All acquitted in tainted
blood scandal
Blood scandal
Krever
Commission |
Woman sues
EDMONTON -
Under the "New Identities for Victims of Abuse" (NIVA),
Jane Doe and her young daughter were able to change their names and
create new identities, but they couldn't tell anyone about their new
lives - including family, friends and colleagues. (CBC)
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Canadian Resource Centre for Victims of Crime
Another 'swatting'
TORONTO
- Police kicked down the door of a North Toronto apartment last month
after a caller warned them about a "possible murder" taking place
inside. (CTV) PREVIOUS:
Swatting
Hacker's latest taunt
'I wasn't guilty'
TORONTO - Forty years ago an Ontario jury heard that
Maxine Ditchfield died from a blow to the head, a case backed up by
expert medical testimony and the victim’s 8-year-old son. (Toronto Star)
Man sues province for $32M
OTTAWA - Robert
Stewart, one of four men who spent more than 15 years in prison only to
have the murder case against them fall apart is now suing the province
for nearly $32 million, alleging Crown prosecutors and police knew they
were relying on "false evidence" from key witnesses to convict him.
(Ottawa Citizen)
Charges dropped
TORONTO - A 39-year-old Toronto woman who was accused of
killing her infant daughter walked free yesterday after
a court was told the charge was based on apparently
nothing more than her own physical reactions in the
aftermath of the child's death. (Toronto Star)
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Mother charged
Mother charged
No malice
OTTAWA
- The Supreme Court of Canada says a Crown attorney who
pressed a controversial sex-abuse case against two
families of SK foster parents in the 1990s did
not act in malice. (Toronto Star) JUDGMENT:
2009 SCC 51
SK pay $1.5M to Klassen & Kvello
Miazga malicious prosecution case
SK ritual abuse hoax
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Veterans formally exonerated
Original
Seattle PI sketches
SEATTLE - The Army formally apologized Saturday for the
wrongful conviction of 28 black soldiers accused of
rioting and lynching an Italian prisoner of war in
Seattle more than six decades ago. (Seattle PI)
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Veteran dies hours after
apology
On American soil
Italian
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Murder suspect suing
CALGARY - Investigators
probing the 1999 killing of Gail Foley had "tunnel vision," alleges a
$10-million malicious prosecution lawsuit launched by the man who was
considered the prime suspect. Scott Allan McLaughlin was initially
found guilty of second-degree murder, but the Alberta Court of Appeal
overturned the conviction. (Calgary Herald) |
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Ex-prosecutor's cases questioned
WINNIPEG - An
experienced Ontario judge who is one of Canada's most respected legal
scholars has been retained to review the cases of former top Manitoba
prosecutor George Dangerfield. . (Winnipeg Free Press) |
Clerical errors blamed for wrongful
arrests
VANCOUVER - More than a dozen people in BC have been
wrongfully arrested or imprisoned in recent years
because of clerical errors by court staff, according to
internal government records. (Vancouver Sun) |
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Faith
in justice system shaken
AMSTERDAM
- Fallout from the case of the man wrongfully convicted of the
murder of Nienke Kleiss, 10, in Schiedam has shaken
the public's faith in the legal system in the Netherlands.
(Expatica)
MORE:
Leaked
memo is not a confession, prosecutors insist
Prosecution
denies hiding evidence in murder case
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Crown admits flaws with
O'Neill warrants
OTTAWA - A Crown attorney
admitted in court on Wednesday that there were flaws in
the warrants used to carry out a raid against Ottawa
Citizen reporter Juliet O'Neill. (CanWest) PREVIOUS:
Reporter threatened during RCMP raid
Anti-terrorism law unconstitutional, newspaper lawyer
argues
Injusticebusters: Juliet O'Neill
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Charges dropped
OTTAWA -
Crown prosecutors have withdrawn a murder charge against Romeo Phillion.
(CBC)
Romeo
Phillion
Cop can't recall details
Background: Romeo
Phillion
Osgoode Hall Innocence
Project: Phillion |
Blaming one cop 'a scandal'
QUEBEC
- A lobby group that defends the wrongfully convicted
said yesterday it is scandalous that one police officer
is taking the fall for the entire justice system that
sent Simon Marshall, a mentally disabled man, to prison
for five years for sex crimes he didn't commit. (Ottawa
Citizen) |
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Truscott awarded
$6.5M
TORONTO -
Steven Truscott, who was sentenced to hang in 1959 at age 14 for a murder he
did not commit, will receive $6.5 million in compensation from the
Ontario government. (Toronto Star)
Question of compensation for
Truscott
Weighing the trauma endured
by a 14-year-old
Province on hook for high
price of justice
Truscott acquitted
Cost mounting for 'very expensive lesson'
Wrongfully convicted call for overhaul to
reviews
NL man awarded $2M for wrongful
conviction
Insect evidence opens new
line
Truscott review hears grisly evidence
Truscott bears no ill
will to investigator
Truscott case autopsy notes never received
Case may turn on a worm
Pathologist's work could add to wrongly
accused
Statement
analysis: Steven Truscott Last
Seen With
Steven Truscot's Long Ride Into
History His word against history
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NB settlement
FREDERICTON - The New Brunswick
government has reached an out-of-court settlement with
Erin Michael Walsh over his wrongful conviction for
second-degree murder in 1975. (CBC)
Murder conviction overturned
Dying man granted acquittal
If justice fails
Jury
overturns conviction
Man jailed for rape Bernardo admits to
Driskell inquiry
Commission
Injustice
Busters: James Driskell
Center
on Wrongful Convictions
CBC
Indepth: Wrongfully convicted
Jailed for murders they didn't commit
Legal
aid in Canada
Legal aid
system is flawed
Justice officials knew of
injustices
Dirty
secrets emerge
Was
the wrong man hanged?
Inaccuracies left Justice officials
doubting claims
Man
freed after 10 extra years in jail
Ont.
man convicted of murder granted bail
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